[sqlalchemy] Re: Creating Tables From Selects

2009-01-27 Thread Michael Bayer
there's nothing stopping you from just executing the SQL directly. I've never actually heard of CREATE TABLE AS before, but I just checked it out and you can certainly generate the SQL programmatically from a select, by inspecting each column in the select statement's c collection.

[sqlalchemy] Re: Creating Tables From Selects

2009-01-27 Thread Roger Demetrescu
On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 14:31, Michael Bayer mike...@zzzcomputing.com wrote: there's nothing stopping you from just executing the SQL directly. I've never actually heard of CREATE TABLE AS before, but I just checked it out and you can certainly generate the SQL programmatically from a

[sqlalchemy] Re: Creating Tables From Selects

2009-01-27 Thread MikeCo
I found this to be an interesting little problem. The task can be accomplished by using the text of a statement to construct a new string then executing. Here is a simple recipe using SQLite. I'm sure it can be extended fairly easily, and should work in any standard SQL environment import